Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

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Blogs or bogs


I’ve decided to venture up to the land of peat and bogs to make a second attempt at The Pennine Way. George, Steve and I made a start 41 years ago in 1965. We packed up at Malham having completed 66miles, Steve decided he had enough . (Following week I cycled from Blackpool to Edinburgh in the day!).

Will be interesting to see how far I get this time. Suzie in Hebden Bridge (41miles) and George in Kendal (101miles) have been put on red alert in case of back up.

After reading the experiences of David Gibbins and Justin Turner I go to bed a slightly worried man 🙁

Apparently a high pressure is building up forecasting good weather for the first few days. Although I’m sure the bogs will be very deep.

Microsoft’s blunder and IE7

Excellent article from John Dvorak clearly stating why Microsoft blundered when they suddenly went into the browser business.

Afraid I have uninstalled my IE7 as it caused Firefox to seize up and anyway it didnt seem to offer any advantages over Firefox.

IE7 download

Downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7beta this morning all 12MB of it plus all its ‘updates’, after all it was released yesterday.

I thought I would see what extensions were available:-


Wow just look at the size of those downloads! and they expect me to pay for them too!

Interestingly the default search engine is Google:

I also can’t see a way of displaying a directory in the links bar. Also the links bar seemed to not be there after install. You have to fiddle like in the old IE to get it to appear as a complete bar.

So far I can’t see any reason to change from Firefox

NHS Blog Doctor: British GPs win Eurolottery

NHS Blog Doctor writes that British GPs win Eurolottery: “A full time partner in my practice currently earns about £140,000 year net of expenses. Over the last two years, we have had a pay rise of between twenty and twenty-five percent”

and of cause, he states,you can increase your pay by these lovely ruses too by using “Trainee GPs are better than free labour; GP trainers actually get PAID to have them” or “get a full time salaried GP for £70,000 a year. That is half the income of the GP principal” or even better get a nurse to do the work “You can afford six practice nurses for each GP” and of cause you need someone for the “administrative job of organising and presenting data” to maximise your wealth.

No wonder Ellee’s xGP partners are making her stick to the retirement age in their partnership agreement, when they stand to gain so much with these sorts of ‘pay’ rises and ruses courtesy of nulabour.